Where Are the Moderate Muslims? | 5 Minute Video
After every terrorist attack, politicians and pundits reassure us that the atrocity does not represent the true beliefs of the “moderate Muslim majority.” But how many moderates are there? And what exactly does “moderate” mean? Military instructor and researcher Hussein Aboubakr explains.
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After every new Jihadist attack against the West, politicians reassure us that the atrocity does not represent the true nature of mainstream Islam. Of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, they constantly reassure us, the overwhelming majority are as law abiding as any members of any other monotheistic faith. Only a tiny fraction engage in terror. And Islam is a religion of peace. Furthermore, we are told, the great majority of Muslims hold moderate views.
But what does that mean? How moderate are moderate Muslims? Given the threat of radical Islam, it would seem to be a fair question. Let me start to answer it by telling you something of my own story.
I was raised in a middle class Muslim home in Cairo, Egypt. Growing up, I was told, among many other things, the following: That every day that passes on the Islamic nation without a caliphate is a sin. That the failures and miseries of the Muslim world started the moment we Muslims gave up conquests and wars against the infidels. That our prosperity depended on conquering new lands and converting new believers. That anyone who leaves the faith must die. And I also remember how my teachers and my mosque imams reacted to the news of 9/11 when it happened: joy.
My experience was typical, and there is data to prove it: According to the Pew Research Center, 88% of Muslims in Egypt, 62% in Pakistan, 86% in Jordan and 51% in Nigeria believe that any Muslim who choses to leave Islam should be put to death. Similar, if not identical, numbers are in favor of stoning people who commit adultery, severely punishing those who criticize Muhammad or Islam, and chopping off hands for theft.
All of these practices are a part of the penal code of Islamic law, which is known as Sharia. And 84% of Muslims in South Asia, 77% in Southeast Asia, 74% in the Middle East and North Africa and 64% in Sub-Saharan Africa support Sharia as the law of the land. Less drastic, yet significant, percentages are to be found even among Muslim communities in the West.
So, too, most of the world’s Muslims believe that any acts of violence against Israel, including suicide bombers in buses and restaurants, are justified. Now, does any of this sound moderate to you? Yet if anyone raises these inconvenient truths here in the West, he is sure to be called an Islamophobe, a hater of Islam. Again, my own story is instructive.
In February of 2015, I was yelled at, cursed at, and successfully prevented from speaking at Swarthmore College by students and others who did not agree to what I was saying. Some of them were Muslim women who fit the image of the unveiled, perfect English-speaking, moderate Muslim young woman. Other seeming “moderates” tried and failed to do the same during my speech at Temple University the next day. Some of them, sadly, were students of journalism.
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What do you suggest we, in the US, do about this controversial reality ??? I mean each of us as citizens who are non Muslim. Most of us are aware that somehow the religion and the people of Islam are not compatible with Western values, even if many will not admit so out loud. But Trump knew this when he tried to temporarily stop or minimize Muslim immigration to this country. Idk if that is the correct answer, but half the country screamed racism and fought against Trump's efforts.
As a Christian grew up in Egypt, the day I used go to church when I was young, was the day of being beaten-up by the Muslims teenagers living on the same street. They were calling us" the infidels are coming" then start their assault. All was happening because I have a different faith.
Désinformation sioniste 🤣😡
Islam is not a religion of peace, their prophet was a warlord, who married his bride when she was only 9 years old. Just look at some of their barbaric punishments: adultery =death, homosexuality =death, if you leave Islam… guess what? Death!
Islam doesn't like criticism, and many practitioners if Islam will get violent if they can't find answers to question about their faith.
i didn't know that the people who wants sharia law are that high
You are making hadiths a part of islam and a source of legislation while thats not true if you use common sense , hadiths were written after prophet muhammed died by two hundred years so by this revelation if you think they are authentic then you have problems, also you generalize salfi muslims making them the face of islam while normal muslims dont like them and they dont like us too ! Any way going back to the hadiths topic, you should only depend on quran only if you want to know islam because , prophet muhamed (saw) is only a messaner of god thats his duty in the quran and us believers, prophet muhamed(saw),other prophets should only follow god because god is only one to make provisions and his prophets are only messangers of him and his laws surat al maaida (
The Messenger's duty is but to proclaim (the message). But Allah knoweth all that ye reveal and ye conceal.)
Surat el anaam
([Say], "Then is it other than Allah I should seek as judge while it is He who has revealed to you the Book explained in detail?" And those to whom We [previously] gave the Scripture know that it is sent down from your Lord in truth, so never be among the doubters.)
So if you want to attack sth know it well first , hadiths are not a part of islam by "god's words "..
Islam is the religion of hate 😈
Muslims are peaceful and moderate as long as they are in a minority.
As soon as they become a majority, they want to impose their ideology on you. They have a global agenda.
Respect to you sir. Thank you for your words!
Well said.
The moderate Muslim holds the infidels feet while the radical Muslim cuts his throat.
This community made countries in the name of religion then its people go to secular countries to spread their shit.. besharm.. created OIC for only Muslims countries 😂.. then take your like minded people in those all countries.
There is no such thing as Moderate Muslim.
This is the truth of islam a dangerous cult with no tolerance for anyone than Muslims.
4:25 ahh yes the West
speaking of the west there wouldn't have been a Renaissance in the West if it wasen't for the reforms of Islamic scientists and philosophers
like ibin sina and ibin rush ect…
p s I love Western values, like the French killing 1.5 million Muslims in their 132 year long colonization of Algeria
(Not to mention the british )
or the USA killing 1 million iraqis in they pointless war in Iraq ( also destroying Iranian democracy with the british)
or the spanish armadas who would kill/ Exile anyone who didn't convert to their form of Christianity
And the West forcing Jews to flee into Islamic lands where they were treated well ,and where you can still find Jewish communities in Morocco and turkey
2:16 Muslims debate on what Sharia law should even be
there's no 1 true sharia law
1:29 in a poll carried out by gallop to see if muslims support 9/11 with over 50,000 Muslims in 35 countries
93% of muslims in the poll said they rejected and didnt support 9/11 , and out of the 7% who did said they supported it out of political reasons and not religious reasons
Yes… Its true… But the fact moderate muslims are not moderate at all… Islam by itself has different factions (for example sufism)… And we should promote this factions that are dying away in The muslim world… But overall muslims are from culture who apply this ideas (this is law abiding in itself to it)…
Phobia is a unrealistic fear. Fear of Islam is reasonable and recommended.
270million slaughtered in 1400 years by Islamic jihads. This figure is increasing daily. Allah is Satan and Mohammed a Satanist, how can this be "reformed".
While Muslims like Raheel Raza, Tarik Fatah and Salim Mansour may be considered Moderates, in fact they are Islamic Reformers who acknowledge that Islam must evolve to the standards of todays civilization and let go of past beliefs that do not conform with todays current human values. This in the eyes of the Islamic World makes them Apostates and they are under a death sentence.
This further proves that ISLAM is a threat
The simple fact is that there is no such thing as a Moderate Peaceful Muslim, these so called Moderates when the time comes will turn violently against Non-Muslims. They will do so for one of Two Reasons:
1. They will have re-affirmed their faith in Islam and will joyfully join in the slaughter of all Non-Muslims; or.
2. They will do so out of Fear, the Fear that if they do not their fellow Muslims will turn on them and slaughter them and their families.
So there is no such thing as a Moderate Peaceful Muslim.
It doesn't exist "moderate Muslim" as it doesn't exist "moderate Christian" or "moderate Buddhist" or "moderate Satanist" , etc etc etc. The REAL religious cuck is EVER fanatical and intolerant.
No such thing as moderate Muslims.
Religion of peace 😂
Islam is like a snake in the grass
Radical = Snake
Moderate = Grass
Something I've noticed especially in the comments sections on YouTube and Facebook and everywhere else, is that there are people who claimed to be a Muslim; yet when the information is brought out about what happened on October 7th they will say something like I think that the Jews in Israel did it themselves and that they're blaming it on people in Gaza just to take over those areas. That's not what a moderate would say. Just as any German person who would say that they don't believe the Holocaust happened to me is not somebody who I could have a conversation with because they're ignoring all the evidence or they're in their own little Minds they are assuming that the large amount of civilians who died in Germany was greater than the amount of Jews who were killed. And while I will not say that what happened there was a Tit for Tat kind of a thing as it wasn't. But one thing is for sure, Germany did not quit the war in order to save their civilians. In 1941 as the Germans were on their way into Russia the generals had talked to Hitler about getting winter clothes for the men in case of an early winter. Hitler said no. He said if we do not take Moscow within 6 months then the war is lost. They did not take Moscow within the first 6 months. So according to what their own commander-in-chief said, he knew at that point that it was the end. Yet he continued and said no keep it going. Keep going whether we can afford bullets or not. One of those other legs that was within the Third Reich who was a part of the axis was Switzerland. Without them there wouldn't been any war going on. They were the ones who were keeping the money flowing on the off chance that maybe Hitler's people would get all of Russia, and that was a gamble they were willing to take. But with the people who are trying to stand up and and be counted and believe themselves to be somehow better than other people it's like no, every time I see video coming in from Pakistan and the many other countries in the Middle East, what I say is before you look at the religion of somebody look at the people look at their countries look at the state of their people to see whether or not what you're looking at is something that is a succeeding kind of thing or if it's something where the majority of people want nothing more than to get out of their country. Same thing happened with any communist country they had to keep walls up in the country to keep people in not to keep not to keep people from coming into their country but to keep their people from in it to get out. That's how you know you have a failed state.
Home in bed with 8 or 9 year old children.
God bless Hussein Aboubakr for addressing the issue 🤍
There's none.
they do not support the rights they expect for themselfs
Where Are the Moderate Muslims? they don't exist.
Islam comes straight from Satan to his evil messenger Mohammad…..
I agree. But don't talk about 'western values'. These values are shared by all civilized people, as in Taiwan, Japan and Australia. Say 'Civilization'. Mainstream Islam must evolve to be part of Civilization. In civilized countries, we must ban barbaric Islam. Only allow a modernized version. Which also has to be imposed worldwide.
How can there be moderate Muslims when Satan controls the religion.
AS LONG AS THEY BELIEVE IN ISLAM THERE IS NO MODERATE MUSLIMS!!!! LOOK IN THEIR SO CALLED HOLY BOOKS AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT KIND OF HUMANS ARE MUSLIMS. NO MORAL AND SELF RESPECTING HUMAN WOULD EVER EMBRACE ISLAM!!!!
What's the point of reforming it? It's like reforming scientology 😂 both based off false prophets, and both are cults
"Moderate Muslims" exist only in places where the forces of secularization can firmly suppress Islam.
Most muslims are nice and kind 'despite of' it's violent dogma.
Yet become outrageous whenever they feel religiously offended
Moderate Muslims are considered infidels by dedicated Muslims.
Islam reforming is impossible. Read the history of islam and you know why.
a country like France ( mine ) should have engaged in this reform. But other powerful petromonarchies invest millions in preventing that can ever happen, including on our soil. They see it as a threat.
They actually don’t exist
There is no moderate or radical Islam, Islam itself is radical.
Why there's no more Jews in mecca or in Saudi Arabia..?
Are they moderate muslims..?
Ethnically cleansed the Jews.
This 7 years ago video is amazingly depicte current world. It is undeniable and factual.
This is the truth about the lack of "moderate Islam." What matters more is why such a large majority of believers are radical or, ultra-conservative. It has to do with how Islam became radical. I will attempt to explain as succinctly as possible.
In the mid-1700s ibn Abdul Wahhab was a wealthy business man that believed Islam had lost its way. He traveled to much of the Islamic world, and in his mind, Islam needed to get back to its roots.
He started with a small militia and began going village to village, demanding that the Muslims join his conservative movement or die. Non- Muslims had to convert. All those who refused were put to the sword. Eventually, he had a very large following that threatened the status quo at the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The Saud family controlled the cities, which allowed them to charge a tax on all that entered the cities for the obligatory haj.
The Saud family struck a deal with Wahhab in which they were allowed to maintain control of the haj and in turn, would make the ultra-conservative Wahhabist version of Islam the offical version.
Koran 2:223: „Eure Weiber sind euch ein Acker. Geht zu eurem Acker von wannen ihr wollt. ..“
Sahih Bukhari 2658: „Der Prophet sagte: „Ist das Zeugnis einer Frau nicht halb so wert wie das eines Mannes?“ Die Frauen sagten: „Ja.“ Er sagte: „Das liegt an der geistigen Unzulänglichkeit einer Frau."
Sahih Bukhari 5134 – Mohammed heiratete Aischa als sie 6 Jahre alt war. Hatte mit ihr Geschlechtsverkehr als sie 9 war.
Koran 4:34: „Und wenn du bei deinen Frauen schlechtes Benehmen spürst, dann rate sie zuerst. Wenn sie hartnäckig bleiben, teile ihr Bett nicht, wenn sie aber immer noch hartnäckig bleiben, dann schlage sie.“
Koran 4:24: „Ebenso verboten sind verheiratete Frauen, außer weiblichen Gefangenen in deinem Besitz.“ (Männlichen Mohammedanern ist es nur dann erlaubt, Frauen zu berühren, wenn sie ihre Ehefrauen oder ihre Sklavinnen sind.)
Mishkat al-Masabih 3260: „…und schlage deine Frau nicht so stark, wie du deine Sklavin schlägst.“
Sahih Bukhari 29: „Der Prophet sagte: „Mir wurde das Höllenfeuer gezeigt und dass die Mehrheit seiner Bewohner Frauen waren, die undankbar waren.“ (dasselbe auch in Sahih Bukhari 204)
Koran 65:4: Frauen können vor der Pubertät verheiratet werden
Koran 23:5-6, 70:22-30, 4:3: Ein Mann kann von seinen Sex-Sklavinen Ehefrauen machen
Sahih Bukhari 3237 und Sunan Ibn Majah 1853: Frau darf den Wunsch ihres Mannes nach Intimität nicht abwenden, selbst wenn sie sich auf dem Kamelensattel befindet
Koran 4:3: Frau darf den Wunsch ihres Mannes nach Polygamie nicht kritisieren
Koran 2:221: Muhammadanische Frauen dürfen nicht-muhammadanische Männer nicht heiraten, Muhammedanische Männer dürfen nicht-muhammedanischae Frauen heiraten.
Bayhaqi 14490: Frau darf das Haus ohne Erlaubnis ihres Mannes nicht verlassen
Koran 4:11: Frauen vererben halb so viel wie ein Mann
Sahih Muslim 8:3425: Frau soll einen nicht-verwandten Mann stillen, damit dieser zu ihr nicht-verheiratbar wird, im Fall beide sind irgendwo zusammen
Sahih Bukhari 7099: „Niemals wird ein Land erfolgreich sein, das eine Frau zu seiner Leiterin/Führerin macht.“
Koran 4:34: Die Männer sind den Frauen überlegen, wegen dessen, was Allah den einen vor den anderen gegeben hat.
Im Paradies werden männliche Muhammadaner 80.000 Diener und 72 Jungfrauen (Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2562) mit großen und schönen Augen haben (Koran 37:48, 44:54, 52:20), vollbusig (Koran 78:33) die von keinem Mann berührt worden sind (Koran 55:56), die auf grünen Kissen und wunderschönen Teppichen liegen (55:74)
Sahih Muslim 2738a – Frauen sind Minderheit im Paradies (die 72 Jungfrauen pro Mann mitgezählt?)
Sahih Muslim 10.3901: „Da kam ein Sklave und schwor dem Gesandten Allahs … Treue. Er wusste nicht, dass er ein Sklave war. Dann kam sein Herr und forderte ihn zurück, woraufhin Allahs Apostel sagte: Verkaufe ihn an mich. Und er tauschte ihn für zwei seiner schwarzen Sklaven und nahm danach niemandem die Treue, bis er ihn gefragt hatte, ob er ein Sklave (oder ein freier Mann) sei.
Koran 3:54, Qur'an 8:30: "Allah ist der beste Listenschmiede."
Koran 9:29: "Kämpfet wider jene von denen, welchen die Schrift gegeben war, die nicht glauben an Allah und an den Jüngsten Tag und nicht verwerfen, was Allah und Sein Gesandter verworfen haben.."
– Über den Jüngsten Tag – Sahih Muslim 2953b: Wann würde die letzte Stunde kommen? Daraufhin schwieg der Gesandte Allahs eine Weile. Dann schaute er in seiner Gegenwart einen kleinen Jungen an … und er sagte: Wenn dieser Junge lebt, würde er nicht sehr alt werden, bis die letzte Stunde zu euch kommen würde. [- also vor 1.350 Jahren!]
– Über die Glaubwürdigket Muhammads: Qur'an 69.44-46: "Hätte sich der Gesandte in Unserem (Allahs) Namen etwas ausgedacht, hätten wir (Allah) … seine Aorta durchtrennt." – im Vergleich zu Sahih Bukhari 4428: "Der Prophet pflegte in seiner Krankheit, an der er verstarb, zu sagen: „O Aisha! … zu diesem Zeitpunkt habe ich das Gefühl als wäre meine Aorta durchtrennt, von diesem Gift.“
Koran 20:53: Allah breitete die Erde aus, wie einen Teppich.
Koran 22:65: Allah hält den Himmel oben und verhindert, dass er auf uns runterfällt.
Koran 13:2: Allah hat den Himmel auf unsichtbaren Säulen errichtet.
Koran 16:79, und 67:19: Habt ihr nicht die Vögel im Himmel fliegen sehen? Niemand außer Allah hält sie in der Luft. Darin liegen wahrlich Zeichen für die Gläubigen.
Koran 67:5: Und wahrlich, Wir (Allah) haben den nächsten Himmel mit Lampen [Sternen] geschmückt und Wir [Allah] haben sie zu Geschossen für die Teufel gemacht.
Sahih Muslim 758c: Allah kommt zum tiefsten [ersten] Himmel in der Nacht.
Koran 21:33 – "Und Er ist's, der die Nacht erschuf und den Tag und die Sonne und den Mond, die alle rollen in ihrer Sphäre"
Koran 18:86: … er [ein Reisender] den Untergang der Sonne erreichte und sie in einer schlammigen Quelle untergehen sah …
Sahih Bukhari 3199 (auch Sahih Muslim 159a, Sahih Bukhari 7424): „Weißt du wohin die Sonne (zum Zeitpunkt des Sonnenuntergangs) geht?“ Ich antwortete: „Allah und sein Apostel wissen es besser.“ Er sagte: „Sie geht, bis sie sich unter dem Thron (Allahs) niederwirft und die Erlaubnis erhält, wieder aufzugehen, und es wird erlaubt, und dann (wird eine Zeit kommen), in der sie sich niederwirft, aber ihre Niederwerfung wird nicht angenommen, und sie wird um Erlaubnis bitten, ihren Weg fortzusetzen, aber es wird nicht gestattet, sondern es wird ihr befohlen, zurückzukehren, und so wird sie im Westen aufsteigen.
Sahih al-Bukhari 5686: Der Prophet befahl ihnen [welchen Männern], seinem Hirten und seinen Kamelen zu folgen und deren Milch und Harn zu trinken (als Heilmittel). Also folgten sie den Kamelen, und tranken ihre Milch und ihren Harn (als Heilmittel) …
Adab al Mufrad 1187 und Ibn Majah 3723 – Nie auf auf deinem Bauch schlafen! Allah hasst das, wird sich ärgern!
Sahih Bikhari 3320 – wenn eine Fliege in deinem Getränk fällt, tauche diese komplett rein. Auf dem einen Flügel ist die Krankheit, auf dem anderen das Heilmittel.
Sahih Muslim 2220 – Ansteckende Krankheiten gibt es nicht.
Das "t" in "Islam" steht für Toleranz!
True rightist fascist shit. I stopped watching PragerU a long time ago and I am happy. Islam is a religion like every other.